Anchors
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Lissette Campos
Lissette Campos is the Director of Community Affairs for ABC Action News. The Emmy award winning journalist anchors the station’s community affairs segments, “Positively Tampa Bay” and is also at the helm of the station’s community awareness campaigns produced throughout the year.
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Sarina Fazan
After moving to Seattle from Kashmir at the age of 2, Sarina Fazan learned English by watching Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters. While other kids were playing with dolls and puzzles, Sarina was practicing her future career with a microphone she made from aluminum foil.
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Linda Hurtado
Born in San Francisco, Linda Hurtado studied at the University of Georgia before working in Fort Myers, Orlando and Tampa. She is one of the original members of the ABC Action News team.
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Brendan McLaughlin
Brendan McLaughlin did stints in San Francisco and Austin before helping start the WFTS news operation in 1994.
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Deiah Riley
Deiah Riley co-anchors the morning and noon newscasts.
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Wendy Ryan
Wendy Ryan co-anchors the 6 and 11 o'clock editions. She also launched the popular “Dirty Dining” franchise shortly after joining ABC Action News.
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Dan Shaffer
Dan Shaffer co-anchors Action News This Morning, beginning at 4:55 a.m., and Action News at Noon.
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John Thomas
John Thomas has been with ABC Action News since 1999. In that time he has covered nearly all of the major breaking stories in the bay area including the elections of 2000, Jessica Lunsford, Terri Schiavo and several Tampa Bay area storms.
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Jamison Uhler
ABC Action News added evening anchor Jamison Uhler to its award-winning news team in May 2010. Jamison co-anchors the 5pm and 11pm weeknight newscasts. Uhler joined the ABC Action News team following four years as an anchor/reporter at WCAU-TV, the NBC-owned station in Philadelphia.
Weather & Traffic
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Captain Al Taylor
Alan Taylor, also known as 'Captain Al' is pilot / reporter of the ABC Action News helicopter, Action Air One. He’s been flying for the Action News team since 2002.
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Meredyth Censullo
Weekdays between 5-9 AM, Meredyth brings viewers traffic reports from the ABC Action News studios using real-time data from a variety of resources including local law enforcement agencies, traffic cameras and roving Action News photojournalists. While Mere is keeping an eye on the roads from the studio, Capt. Al Taylor is monitoring traffic conditions from the sky in Action Air 1. Follow Meredyth's traffic tweets @TampaBayTraffic.
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Bill Logan
Bill Logan has been a familiar face with viewers in the Tampa Bay area, anchoring newscasts, presenting weather, and telling stories on the local airwaves since 1987.
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Denis Phillips
Denis Phillips is the Chief Meteorologist at ABC Action News. He can be seen weeknights on the 5pm, 5:30, 6pm, and 11pm newscasts.
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Wayne Shattuck
Wayne Shattuck is a meteorologist at ABC Action News.
Sports
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Tom Korun
Your ABC Action Sports anchor, Tom Korun has been a bay area sports fan for more than 20 years.
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Andrew Luria
Andrew Luria is the weekend sports anchor at ABC Action News, a spot he has held since May 2010.
Spotlight
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New iPad? Download our app!
Buying the new iPad? You'll want to download the new and improved ABC Action News iPad app.
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10 questions for Lorraine Yaslowitz
Each Tuesday, ABC Action News asks 10 questions of a Bay area leader or newsmaker. This week we hear from Lorraine Yaslowitz, the wife of slain officer Jeff Yaslowitz and a mother of three children.
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Wendy Ryan's Dirty Dining reports
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) through the Division of Hotels and Restaurants inspects restaurants throughout the state. ABC Action News reporter Wendy Ryan visits some of those with violations.
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WATCH: ABC Action News NOW!
Watch the Bay area’s ONLY nonstop news and weather channel on your smartphone or computer. Anytime. Anywhere. ABC Action News Now!
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CDC: Young ignore skin-cancer warnings
The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through. Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the previous year -- about the same as a decade ago, according to a government survey released Thursday.
Top Stories
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FORECAST: More rain on the way?
Upper level energy and a very moist atmosphere will keep rain chances high through Thursday.
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PHOTOS: Rain moves through the bay area
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Mom sent text before shooting her kids
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Help make the ringing stop for veterans
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Applicants wanted for Florida PSC
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Inmate charged with ID theft
Reporters
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Jackie Callaway
Jackie Callaway is the ABC Action News consumer advocate, Taking Action For You every day.
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Carson Chambers
Carson Chambers was born and raised in Tampa and is thrilled to be reporting in her home town. She joined ABC Action News after reporting for WBTV Charlotte, NC , WBBH in Fort Myers/Naples and WCJB-TV in Gainesville.
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Alan Cohn
Alan Cohn is the chief investigative reporter at ABC Action News
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Don Germaise
Don Germaise has become the old-timer at ABC Action News. He was the first news reporter hired when WFTS became an ABC affiliate in 1994. Don's seasoning gives him a unique insight to news coverage in the Bay Area: Don knows most of the newsmakers, and they know him!
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Chris Martinez
Chris Martinez joined the ABC Action News team in July 2003. He can be seen reporting weeknights on ABC Action News at 11pm.
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Michael George
Michael is always looking to uncover stories important to our community. He is interested in exposing government workers wasting time on the job and ways in which your tax dollars are being misused.
Reporters
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Ashley Glass
Ashley Glass is thrilled to be living and working on the west coast of Florida! The Sunshine State is her home, and she wants to explore everything the bay area has to offer.
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John Matarese
A veteran reporter and two-time Emmy Award winner, John Matarese is the Don't Waste Your Money consumer reporter for ABC Action News.
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Alison Morrow
It’s been almost 15 years since I’ve seen regular sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. I grew up in St. Petersburg, attended Shorecrest Preparatory School my entire childhood, and the moved off to Wake Forest University when I was 17, never thinking my life would bring me back through the Tampa Bay area.
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Erik Waxler
Erik Waxler has been a reporter and multi-media journalist for ABC Action News since 2008.
